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General Britcoin Thread

Princess AlicePrincess Alice
edited 2014-03-08 02:23:27 in General
Together they all make up a shield!

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I wish my country's coins had something that clever...
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  • TachyonTachyon
    imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    i remember the first time someone showed me you could do that i was just like, woah
  • Sredni VashtarSredni Vashtar
    edited 2014-03-08 02:52:43
    “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”
    Although convoluted, I think that I would prefer the non-decimal pre-'70s farthing/penny/groat/shilling/pound/guinea system.
  • TachyonTachyon
    imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    Why's that?
  • Sredni VashtarSredni Vashtar
    “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”
    Being able to divide one of one's major monetary unit's into 1008 parts is weirdly appealing to me. Just the math is fun: One guinea is 1.05 pounds sterling is twenty-one shillings is eighty-four groats is two hundred and fifty-two pence is one thousand and eight farthings!
  • Obā-sanObā-san

    yer a nut
  • Sredni VashtarSredni Vashtar
    “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”
    I love monetary divisions.
  • TachyonTachyon
    imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    You wouldn't normally count it that way, though.

    You'd say there were 20 shillings to a pound, and a guinea was one pound and one shilling.
  • Sredni VashtarSredni Vashtar
    “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”
    I know, but I wanted to go with the deepest number of layers possible to demonstrate the principle.
  • glennmagusharveyglennmagusharvey
    Yon Assassin said:

    yer a nut


  • glennmagusharveyglennmagusharvey
    important question: are you a walnut or a filbert or a cashew or a peanut or a brazilnut or a chestnut or an almond or a pecan
  • Princess AlicePrincess Alice
    You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    Here's something that bugs me though

    The lesser coins form the same shield as on the £1 coin

    But they only add up to 88p

    Where's the other 12p?
  • TachyonTachyon
    edited 2014-03-08 04:24:14
    imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    It's not meant to add up to £1.  Those are simply the most common valued coins in circulation.
  • Princess AlicePrincess Alice
    You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    I know, I know

    But the autistic part of me wants it to equal £1 since it's the same graphic

    Also, typing £ is a pain
  • TachyonTachyon
    imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    no it's not, you just press shift + 3 :p
  • TachyonTachyon
    imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    and if i want to type $ i just press shift + 4

    i'm calling America-centric keyboard design here
  • Salix BabylonikaSalix Babylonika
    https://i.imgur.com/IoGc2jA.jpg
    Typing any coherent thought is hard with these BURNING AMERICAN FREEDOM keyboards that just have a picture of a bald eagle on every key.
  • Princess AlicePrincess Alice
    You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    ...holy crap, I just realized

    # and £ are both referred to as a pound symbol

    and they're in the same place on their respective keyboard layouts

    you win this round, keyboard designers
  • TachyonTachyon
    imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    what no it's not a pound symbol it's a hash

    Americans
  • TachyonTachyon
    imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    seriously i'm not just being obnoxious, i legit did not know it was called the pound symbol over there

    or if i did i'd forgotten
  • Princess AlicePrincess Alice
    You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    Now that I think about it, it should have been obvious that it's not called a "pound" in Britain, since that means something else there.

    ...So what do you guys call the # key on a telephone?
  • TachyonTachyon
    edited 2014-03-08 04:42:21
    imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    The hash key.
  • Salix BabylonikaSalix Babylonika
    https://i.imgur.com/IoGc2jA.jpg
    I've also heard it called a ticky and a crossboard before, but those are both regionalisms I'm pretty sure.
  • Princess AlicePrincess Alice
    You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    It's kind of amusing, actually, "hash" has only really fallen into common use in America now that hashtags are widespread.

    I also see people, usually younger people, referring to the # symbol itself as a "hashtag", which is weird.
  • Sredni VashtarSredni Vashtar
    “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”
    I generally think of it as "the sharp sign," myself.

    I know that there is a subtle difference, but still.
  • Salix BabylonikaSalix Babylonika
    https://i.imgur.com/IoGc2jA.jpg
    A hashtag is technically a # followed by a word (the word is the "tag" part).

    It's a difference that I suspect will fade over time. This will literally be my literally.
  • Princess AlicePrincess Alice
    You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    I do find it funny how technology subtly influences the way we think of this typographical stuff

    How many people know that @ is called a "commercial at"? Or remember its original purpose?
  • Salix BabylonikaSalix Babylonika
    https://i.imgur.com/IoGc2jA.jpg
    I had an English teacher in middle school who insisted we refer to @ as "an encircled alph".

    He was real dumb, in retrospect.
  • AlirozAliroz
    ...And even when your hope is gone
    move along, move along, just to make it through
    (2015 self)
    Sredni Vashtar said:

    Being able to divide one of one's major monetary unit's into 1008 parts is weirdly appealing to me. Just the math is fun: One guinea is 1.05 pounds sterling is twenty-one shillings is eighty-four groats is two hundred and fifty-two pence is one thousand and eight farthings!


  • Previous CalicaPrevious Calica
    (flower path)
    the correct term is "octothorpe" you insensitive clods
  • AlirozAliroz
    ...And even when your hope is gone
    move along, move along, just to make it through
    (2015 self)
    Central Avenue said:

    Here's something that bugs me though


    The lesser coins form the same shield as on the £1 coin

    But they only add up to 88p

    Where's the other 12p?
    THere should be more coins, of six, four, and two pence.  THey will be small, and will makemissing parts of the shield.
  • FossilmaidenFossilmaiden
    image Wee yea erra chs hymmnos mea.
    ...But there is a two pence. It's right there.
  • AlirozAliroz
    ...And even when your hope is gone
    move along, move along, just to make it through
    (2015 self)
    WELL WE NEED ANOTHER TWO PENCE COIN THEN. 

    DIDN'T THINK OF THAT, HUH?

    WHATCHA GONNA DO NOW, PUNK?!!
  • Princess AlicePrincess Alice
    You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    How about a 25p coin? That way you can have quarters like Americans do! :P
  • AlirozAliroz
    ...And even when your hope is gone
    move along, move along, just to make it through
    (2015 self)
    Central Avenue said:

    How about a 25p coin? That way you can have quarters like Americans do! :P

    DAT DUZZNT ADD UP TUH ONE POUND!
  • Sredni VashtarSredni Vashtar
    “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”
    It does in the modern denomination, although it wouldn't when a shilling was twelve pence.

    That said, they still have shillings and combinations thereof, so quarters seem a touch redundant? Also guineas are still around and they're weird enough.
  • Salix BabylonikaSalix Babylonika
    https://i.imgur.com/IoGc2jA.jpg
    what if you could just like trade guinea pigs as a system of formal currency.
  • Sredni VashtarSredni Vashtar
    “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”
    Guinea pigs are a very popular form of livestock in Peru.
  • glennmagusharveyglennmagusharvey
    what if you could just like trade pokemon refined metal as a system of formal currency
  • TachyonTachyon
    imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    Burgundy Queen said:

    Typing any coherent thought is hard with these BURNING AMERICAN FREEDOM keyboards that just have a picture of a bald eagle on every key.

    image
  • AlirozAliroz
    ...And even when your hope is gone
    move along, move along, just to make it through
    (2015 self)
    Tachyon said:

    Burgundy Queen said:

    Typing any coherent thought is hard with these BURNING AMERICAN FREEDOM keyboards that just have a picture of a bald eagle on every key.

    image

    Awww, that's such a pretty design there! I like it.
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